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Colloquia & Events

From its early days, Bryn Mawr has had an international reputation in classical languages and archaeology, and the College is home to a lively community of undergraduates, graduate students and faculty who are interested in classical subjects. Weekly classics colloquia provide an informal meeting ground as well as a schedule of distinguished speakers on a variety of literary, archeological and historical subjects.

Fall 2009 Schedule

Unless otherwise noted, all Colloquia will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Room B21 of the Rhys Carpenter Library on the campus of Bryn Mawr College. Tea will be held at 4:00 p.m. before the lectures in the Quita Woodward Room, which is in Thomas Library. For more information please call: 610-526-5198; or e-mail ocardona@brynmawr.edu

 

September 11

 

    Student ReportsNews from Abroad: Student Reports

 
*September 17

 

    Linda Hutcheon posterLinda Hutcheon

    University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University ofToronto

    “Critical Theory/Theories--In Many Tongues

    *Please Note: Lecture will be on THURSDAY, September 17 at 4:30 pm in Carpenter Library B21. There will be a reception following lecture in the Quita Woodward Room.

     

 
September 25

 

    SetaioliAldo Setaioli, University of Perugia, Italy

    “Encolpius and Priapus: The Poems at Petr. Sat. 133.3 & 139.2 and Priapus’ Role in the Satyrica

 
October 2

 

    Ann SuterAnn Suter, University of Rhode Island

    “Ancient Obscenity and Its Relation to the Sacred”

 
October 23

 

    Alessandro BarhiesiAlessandro Barchiesi, Stanford University

    Divine Council and Divine Senate"

 
October 30

 

    SapirsteinPhilip Sapirstein, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania University Museum, Mediterranean Section

    "East Meets West at the Archaic Temple of Hera At Mon Repos, Corfu"

 
November 6

 

    Lee PearcyLee Pearcy, Episcopal Academy & Bryn Mawr College

    Does Dying Hurt? Philodemus' De Morte and Asclepiades of Bithynia

 
November 13

 

    AntonaccioCarla Antonaccio, Duke University

    “The Argive Heraion, Revisited”

 
November 20

 

    Annetta AlexandridisAnnetta Alexandridis, Cornell University

    Men, Metamorphosis, and the Transforming Power of Wine

 
December 4

 

    Graduate Group SymposiumThe Seventh Biennial Bryn Mawr College Graduate Group Symposium
    December 4-5, 2009

    “The Anxiety of Influence and Appropriation

    Featured Respondent:
    Robert Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor, History of Art, Yale University

    Sponsored by the Graduate Group, the Center for Visual Culture and the Departments of Classical and near Eastern Archaeology, Greek, Latin and Classical Studies, and History of Art

 
December 11

 

    Downey poster smallJanet Downie, Princeton University

    Philostratus’ Heroicus: Paideia in the Local Landscape